A descriptive catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts in the private library of His Highness Sri Rajarajesvar Maharajadhiraj Sri Harisinghji Bahadur of Jammu and Kashmir
- Type
- Descriptive catalogue
- Languages
- Sanskrit
- Manuscripts
- 274
- Collections
- Library of The Maharaja Sri Harisinghji Bahadur of Jammu
- Sources
- Attested in:
- Biswas 1998 no. 0439
- Janert 1965 no. 131
- NCC 1984 list, “Harisinghji”
Description (Biswas 1998)
Short description in tabular form of 274 Sanskrit mss. Summaries of important mss. (p. 6-20). Extracts from select mss. (p. 39-92). Title list of about 1051 printed books in the Library (p. 93-106). "The Late Raja Ram Singh's manuscripts Library consisting of nearly two thousand volumes has been transferred in toto to Raghunath Temple Library of Jammu, but it is not included in Aurel Stein's catalogue of that library" (p. 1). The Sanskrit library of Raja Amar Singh was in the possession of his son Hari Singh, and presently with his grandson Karan Singh. The catalogue lists 274 mss. out of a total of 1325 volumes.
From S. C. Biswas, Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (Delhi, 1998), no. 0439, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.
Annotation (Janert 1965)
(Descriptive notices in tabular form of 274 Mss. on pp. 21 -38, with: summaries, beg., endings and contents of interesting Mss.; alphab. index; pp. I-X (Appx): "Alphab. List of [about 800 titles of printed] Books" in the Library.) (On p. 1 of the Introduction: "The late Raja Sir Ram Singh's manuscript library consisting of nearly 2000 volumes has been transferred in toto to the Raghunath Temple L i b r a r y of Jammu, but it is not included in Sir Aurel Stein's Catalogue of that Library.")
From K. L. Janert, An Annotated Bibliography of the Catalogues of Indian Manuscripts (Wiesbaden, 1965), no. 131, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.